Linda Sillitoe is a professional writer and editor living in Salt Lake City. In 1981, she received the Association for Mormon Letters award for criticism for her article "New Voices, New Songs (Dialogue 13.4, 1980). In 1982, she received a combined award from AML in poetry and fiction for "Lullaby in the New Year" and "Demons" (Sunstone May-June 1981). She has published a novel, Sideways to the Sun (Signature Books, 1987), which received an AML award for fiction in 1988, and she co-authored Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murder (Signature Books, 1988). Her story, "Four Walls and An Empty Door," was published in Greening Wheat: Fifteen Mormon Stories (Orion Books, 1983). Her first collection of poems, "Crazy for Living," will be published by Signature Books, and her ethnography of Clifford Duncan, "One Voice Rising," by the University of Utah Press. Her collection Windows on the Sea was published by Signature Books in 1989.